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ABC SuperSign, with the largest Sony JumboTron in existence. This Sony JumboTron was later replaced with a display capable of 720p HDTV.[1][2]
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Sony Jumbotron at World's Fair 1985
A JumboTron is a large video screen developed by Sony, typically used in sports stadiums and concert venues to show close up shots of the event. Although JumboTron is a registered trademark owned by the Sony Corporation, the word jumbotron is often used by the public as a genericized trademark.

Manufactured by Sony, the JumboTron is recognized as one of the largest vacuum fluorescent displays ever manufactured. It is not an LED (light-emitting diode) display — each display element is composed of 3 or 6 small CRTs (cathode ray tubes), each of which is one color of a pixel.[3] Sony displayed one of the earliest versions at the 1985 World's Fair in Tsukuba. Sony creative director Yasuo Kuroki is credited with the development of the JumboTron. [4]

One of the largest eight-sided (octagonal) JumboTrons in the world is in Dallas, Texas, USA. The largest one for a high school in the USA is located at Lassiter High School in Marietta Georgia. While the JumboTron and similar large-screen displays are physically large, they are often low in display resolution. The JumboTron at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida, USA, measured 30 ft (9 m) diagonally with a resolution of only 240×192 pixels. Screen size since then varies depending on the venue. The display introduced in 1985 was 40 meters wide by 25 meters tall. The largest JumboTron in use was located at the Rogers Centre (formerly SkyDome) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and measured 33 ft tall by 110 ft wide (10 m tall by 33.5 m wide) at a cost of US$17 million. The Rogers Centre JumboTron was replaced in 2005 by a Daktronics ProStar as a part of a stadium revitalization project. The Western Hemisphere's largest high-definition display is a Daktronics ProStar at the University of Texas Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium known as Godzillatron.

Similar devices

Displays similar to the JumboTron include:

References

1. ^ Lighting up Times Square: Opera fans honored on ABC's SuperSign this New Year's Eve. Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
2. ^ ABC SuperSign (Adobe Flash). Retrieved on 2007-04-15.
3. ^ Handbook of Display Technology, Joseph A. Castellano, 1992
4. ^ Foreign Press Center Japan. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
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Rogers Centre, formerly known as SkyDome,[1] is a multi-purpose stadium in Toronto, Ontario, situated next to the CN Tower near the shores of Lake Ontario. It is home to the American League's Toronto Blue Jays and the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts.
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Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (formerly just Memorial Stadium and Texas Memorial Stadium), located in Austin, Texas, is home to the University of Texas Longhorn football team.
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"Godzillatron" is the nickname given to the scoreboard at the University of Texas at Austin's Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. The official name of the board has not yet been decided; it is simply referred to as the "Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium Scoreboard" by the
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